Anxr: CADILLAC IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER

1) Music:    Straw Boss   (@ 49:39)
    (Fade up on the walking bass after the narration)
2) Vox: Benny Golson: (Interview 393   9:46 - 10:08)
"When I write, the saxophone doesn't exist.  When I play the saxophone, the writing doesn't exist. ...I'm married to two separate women and I keep them in separate rooms. (laughs) When I get to writing, it's the writing, writing, writing.  And when I play, I don't think about the pen."          (:20)

3) Bradley:
HE'S PLAYED WITH THE GREATS- LIONEL HAMPTON, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ART BLAKEY, ART FARMER.  HE'S RENOWNED AS A HARD-DRIVING IMPROVISER -- BUT BENNY GOLSON IS ALSO A SOPHISTICATED, ORIGINAL COMPOSER AND ARRANGER.  IN THE PAST FIFTY YEARS, HE SHIFTED EASILY FROM CLUBS LIKE BIRDLAND  TO HOLLYWOOD SOUND STAGES.
        IN ADDITION TO COMPOSING MUSIC FOR STEPHEN SPIELBERG'S FILM "THE TERMINAL," HE HAD AN ACTING ROLE IN IT -- AS HIMSELF.
        NOW AT 76,  BENNY GOLSON HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER.  HE TOURS THE WORLD WITH HIS BANDS --TOTING HIS TENOR SAX AND A SUITCASE FULL OF HIS OWN JAZZ STANDARDS.  
        A TIRELESS INNOVATOR, GOLSON STILL STRIKES A GRACEFUL BALANCE BETWEEN THE HORN AND THE PEN.   RIGHT NOW, HE'LL SHOW OFF BOTH LOVES ONSTAGE --
        
IT'S JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER. I'M ED BRADLEY.

4) Music crossfades to hall ambience
5) Bradley
HERE'S THE QUARTET--- MIKE LEDONNE AT THE PIANO, BASSIST BUSTER WILLIAMS, JOE FARNSWORTH ON DRUMS AND BENNY GOLSON ON TENOR SAX -- FOR HIS CLASSIC, "ARE YOU REAL?"           

6) Music: Are You Real? 9:43

7) Bradley:

BENNY GOLSON'S  "ARE YOU REAL?"   
        IN THE NINETEEN FORTIES, PHILADELPIA WAS COOKING WITH YOUNG JAZZMEN INSPIRED BY BEBOP. GOLSON GREW UP AMONG THEM IN THE COMPANY OF JIMMY HEATH, RAY BRYANT, PHILLY JOE JONES AND, HIS FRIEND AND BANDMATE, JOHN COLTRANE.

        AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY GOLSON STUDIED MUSIC -- BUT IN BULL MOOSE JACKSON'S BAND HE GOT HIS REAL LESSONS. HE LEARNED COMPOSING AND ARRANGING FROM ONE OF THE ALL-TIME MASTERS -- TADD DAMERON.

7) Bradley: (cont.)
        BY 1956, WHEN HE JOINED DIZZY GILLESPIE'S BIG BAND, BENNY GOLSON WAS WRITING TUNES THAT OTHER MUSICIANS WANTED TO PLAY :  LIKE THE TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO A PROMISING YOUNG TRUMPETER -- "I REMEMBER CLIFFORD" AND DIZZY'S FAVORITE, "WHISPER NOT."
        AT ALICE TULLY HALL, GOLSON INTODUCES ANOTHER OF HIS TUNES THAT HAS BECOME A JAZZ ATANDARD.

8) Vox: Benny Golson (from stage) (:54)
Somehow, when I was growing up as a kid, all of the guys who were entangled in questionable endeavors, many of them had the name, 'Killer.'  I never understood that.  So, when I wrote this tune, I decided to call this fellow, 'Killer Joe.'" "When working at Birdland, I used to see many of these characters come down the steps.  Perhaps, with a lady on each arm.... With nails manicured and pressed suits, and expensive Versace ties.  And he never hits a lick.
9) Music: Killer Joe 12:51
10) Bradley:

BENNY GOLSON'S "KILLER JOE" - FEATURING EDDIE HENDERSON ON TRUMPET, CURTIS FULLER ON TROMBONE WITH MIKE LEDONNE ON PIANO, THE BASSIST, BUSTER WILLIAMS, DRUMMER JOE FARNSWORTH AND BENNY GOLSON ON TENOR SAX.  
11) Music: Bessie & Me
12) Bradley: (Mid break announce)

FOR MORE ABOUT BENNY GOLSON, CHECK OUT OUR JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WEBSITE -- J A L C DOT ORG . YOU CAN SEE PICTURES OUR NEW HOME AT NEW YORK'S COLUMBUS CIRCLE -- YOU CAN HEAR THIS PROGRAM AND OTHERS, CHECK OUR SCHEDULE OR SIGN UP FOR EMAIL ABOUT OF OUR UPCOMING SHOWS. THIS IS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, I'M ED BRADLEY.

13) Midbreak: 60  (music cover)
Music xfades with ambience somewhere under next:
14) Bradley:

THE PIANIST BILL MAYES  PLAYING "BESSIE AND ME" COMMISSIONED FROM BENNY GOLSON FOR THE CENTENNIAL OF BESSIE SMITH.
        WHEN BENNY GOLSON LEFT HIS PHILADELPHIA HOMETOWN, HE PLAYED SMOOTH, ELEGANT SAX, LIKE DON BYAS AND COLEMAN HAWKINS.  1958, HE JOINED THE ART BLAKEY'S JAZZ MESSENGERS AND THAT SOUND DIDN'T JIBE WITH THE BAND.  SO ART BLAKEY DRUMMED OUT "PRESS ROLLS" TO DROWN OUT GOLSON'S TENOR.
15) Vox: Benny Golson (Interview 393   28:26 - 29:05)
"And one night, instead of two bars before the next chorus, he took four bars and this press roll got so loud, I thought the man had taken leave of his senses.  And when the new chorus came on, he came down with a loud crash.  Then two bars later, he gave me another loud crash.  And people couldn't hear me.  And then I guess he said, 'I got to let him know.'  He hollered over the drums to me, 'Get up out of that hole.'  And my mind-'What?  I guess I am in a hole. I can't hear myself, you know.'  That's when I started to play more aggressively. My sound changed. Same thing happened to Freddy Hubbard." (:39)

16) Bradley:
        BENNY GOLSON USED HIS NEW HARD BOP SOUND AND HIS NATURAL LYRICISM WHEN HE FORMED "THE JAZZTET" WITH TRUMPETER ART FARMER,  TROMBONIST CURTIS FULLER AND PIANIST MCCOY TYNER.  THE BAND LASTED FOR THREE YEARS AND PROVED A GOOD VEHICLE FOR GOLSON'S WRITING.          
Music: jazztet
BY THE MID-NINETEEN SIXTIES, BENNY GOLSON FOUND A NEW CHALLENGE THAT PAID MORE RELIABLY THAN LEADING A JAZZ ENSEMBLE.  HE PUT DOWN HIS HORN AND WENT TO HOLLYWOOD TO SCORE COMMERCIALS AND TELEVISION, INCLUDING THE TV HIT  "M.A.S.H."  IT WOULD BE EIGHT YEARS UNTIL GOLSON PICKED UP THE SAX AND LEARNED TO BLOW ALL OVER AGAIN. A 1975 TRIBUTE CONCERT AT TOWN HALL IN NEW YORK DREW HIM BACK TO JAZZ PERFORMING.  IN 2001 JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTED GOLSON IN PROFILE,SEMINAR AND CONCERT.  THE BASSIST RON CARTER STEPS OFF BENNY GOLSON'S "WHISPER NOT"
17)  Music: Whisper Not 8:29
(Golson back ax "Whisper Not" at end)

18)  Bradley:
"WHISPER NOT" -- THE BIG BAND FEATURING BILL MAYS ON PIANO, STEVE TURRE ON TROMBONE, VALERY PONOMAREV ON TRUMPET, RON CARTER ON BASS AND BENNY GOLSON ON TENOR SAX.  GOLSON IS A DELIBERATE BUT DARING COMPOSER. HE'S ALWAYS COMBINED ELEMENTS OF JAZZ, GOSPEL, AND R&B.  IN RECENT YEARS, HE'S EXPLORED CLASSICAL AND JAZZ CONNECTIONS.  ON COMMISSION, HE WROTE A CONCERTO FOR STRING BASS AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, AND A VIOLIN PIECE FOR ITZHAK PERLMAN.  FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, HE'S SCHEDULED TO PREMIERE AN ORIGINAL ORCHESTRAL WORK.
STILL, BENNY GOLSON FINDS THE TIME TO TOUR THE WORLD WITH HIS OWN SMALL GROUPS - AND TO WRITE AND RECORD HIS OWN TUNES, LIKE THIS ONE...."STRAW BOSS."

19) Music: Straw Boss 8:08
, fade up around 49:39 on the walking bass-fade up under Bradley)
0)  Bradley:

STRAW BOSS, BENNY GOLSON WITH HIS BIG BAND

AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, WE HAVE GREAT AFFECTION FOR THE MARCHING BAND TRADITION, AND IT IS PARTICULARLY AGREEABLE WHEN WE CAN PRESENT A MARCH THAT IS BOTH OLD AND NEW.
WITH "BLUES MARCH," BENNY GOLSON, THE ALWAYS ORIGINAL COMPOSER AND ARRANGER  GIVES THE OLD FORM A NEW STRUT.

Bradley {alt} HERE'S BENNY GOLSON'S "BLUES MARCH."

21) Vox: Benny Golson (from the stage) (1:12)
" It's a tune that Art Blakey used to play.  And when I suggested that he play a march-it's a march we're going to play-he looked at me and said, "You've got to be kidding.  Nobody plays a march in jazz. Are you crazy?'  I said, 'Give me a chance.' ....Anyway, we got this march together and we played it and he didn't believe it.  The first night we played it, the people started dancing, knocking the tables over.  He said, 'Well, I'll be darned.'  
        We're going to play that march for you now. But, right now, we're going to play 'Blues March'-- it's reminiscent of the drum and bugle corps that I used to hear in philadelphia with the American Legion bands  And Carl, Carl Allen on drums, is going to start us off."

22) Music: Blues March 14:20
(Possible cut at the very end to shorten the very quiet section of string plucking.  OR we can mix Blues March under the credits)

23) Bradley:
       "BLUES MARCH" TAKING US TO THE END OF THIS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PROGRAM.  THE BENNY GOLSON BIG BAND FEATURING
RON CARTER ON BASS, CARL ALLEN ON DRUMS AND  BILL MAYS AT THE PIANO.
EDDIE HENDERSON, LEW SOLOFF, VIRGIL JONES, ALAN RUBIN, VALERY PONOMAREV AND JIMMY OWENS ON TRUMPETS.  
STEVE TURRE, WYCLIFFE GORDON, JIM HUGH, DAVE TAYLOR AND CURTIS FULLER ON TROMBONES.  
 BRAD LEALI (LEE - LEE), JERRY DOGION , BOBBY LAVELL, RON BLAKE, RONNIE KUBER (KEW - ber)  ON SAXOPHONES ALONG WITH THE COMPOSER AND MUSICAL DIRECTOR BENNY GOLSON.  
THE UPTOWN STRING QUARTET IS DIANNE MONROE AND  LESA TERRY ON VIOLINS, EILEEN (A - leen)  FULSON ON CELLO, AND MAXINE ROACH ON VIOLA

24) Music: either finish out with Blues March or Killer Joe

25) Credits
        JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER RADIO IS PRODUCED BY MURRAY STREET. OUR WRITER, LAUREN KRENZEL. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, DAVID GOREN. SENIOR PRODUCER IS STEVE RATHE.  RECORDINGS AT ALICE TULLY HALL WERE MADE BY SANDRA PALMER GRASSI.  THANKS ALSO TO MATTHEW PAYNE, ROBERT AULT AND THE RADIO FOUNDATION.
        THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER IS WYNTON MARSALIS. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IS DEREK GORDON.
        I'M ED BRADLEY.